Swallowing something that isn't food or medicine may not be a good idea. However, doctors have seen people swallow all sorts of strange things, from household items like lighters to entire technological devices like cell phones. One 10-year-old girl even swallowed part of an irritating spinner. Take a look at ......
Fidget spinner The 10-year-old daughter of Kelly Rose Joniec accidentally swallowed part of a Fidget spinner on May 13, 2017, in Texas. (Courtesy of Kelly Rose Joniec)It was only a matter of time before the ......Fidget spinner came out of nowhere and reached wild popularity in the spring of 2017. With so many kids spinning the three scratchy toys with their fingers and elsewhere, someone was bound to get hurt, somehow.On May 13, 2017, in Texas, Kelly Rose Joniec's 10-year-old daughter accidentally swallowed part of her spinner. Chonek wrote on her Facebook page that Chonek was driving home from a swim meet when she noticed her daughter choking. She immediately pulled over and got her daughter emergency care; when the doctors there couldn't fix the problem, an ambulance took the Jonecks to Texas Children's Hospital in Houston. Apparently, her daughter had put part of the fiddle in her mouth to clean it. X-rays taken at the hospital showed the spinner's bushing, or a metal disk that could be ejected from a toy stuck in her esophagus, Joniec writes, and a doctor performed endoscopic surgery and removed the object. [Fidget Spinners: What they are, how they work, and why they're controversial]
A lighter One X-ray shows a lighter object swallowed by a Croatian. (S. Karger AG/University Hospital Split/CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)A lighter was found in the stomach of a Croatian man where it had been sitting for 17 months. According to a 2012 case report, the man admitted to doctors that he had intentionally swallowed the lighter while at a police station, where he was being questioned about possible drug smuggling. The man wrapped the lighter in cellophane, so he wasn't exposed to the toxic chemicals in the lighter, even after that. Doctors managed to remove the lighter from the man's esophagus using a trap-like medical tool.
Cell phone A 29-year-old prisoner in Ireland entered the emergency room after swallowing a cell phone. (National Children's Hospital Dublin/CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)A 29-year-old inmate in Ireland went to the emergency room after swallowing a cell phone.X-rays showed the phone was in the man's stomach. Doctors attempted to pull the phone out of the esophagus with medical tools because the phone itself could not pass through the digestive system. However, they were unable to properly calibrate the phone to get it out of the stomach without causing potential damage to the esophagus, according to a 2016 case report. Ultimately, doctors needed to make a surgical incision in the man's stomach to remove the phone.
Doctors at the National Children's Hospital in Dublin described the case in a 2016 International Surgical Case Report.
SpongeBob SquarePants An X-ray shows a SpongeBob SquarePants pendant that was swallowed by a toddler. (Longtime Dr. Goffland) Thedoctor
who treated a 16-month-old boy discovered SpongeBob's square pants during an X-ray of his throat. It turned out that the child had swallowed a pendant with a cartoon character that belonged to his sister. Doctors were able to remove the pendant without any complications. A toothbrush An X-ray shows the opaque part of a toothbrush in the stomach of an 18-year-old woman. (S. Karger AG/Clinical Hospital Split/CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)An 18-year-old woman went to be examined by doctors after she accidentally swallowed a toothbrush, according to a 2011 case report. The woman admitted that she had been using the toothbrush to induce vomiting when she swallowed it, the report said. Doctors managed to remove the 8-inch toothbrush using a trap-like medical tool. six hours later, the women recovered and went home.
A fitness tracker A teenage girl in South Korea accidentally swallowed her ill-fitting flash activity tracker, but doctors were able to remove it from her stomach. (Copyright?2016 Jason S. Radowsky et al, "Timely intervention: endoscopic removal of swallowed magnetic activity watch," Gastroenterology Case ReportsA 13-year-old girl in South Korea accidentally swallowed her ill-fitting flash activity tracker after putting it in her mouth while swimming. After 30 hours of waiting for the device to pass on its own, it remained in the girl's stomach, so doctors decided to try to remove it. They were able to put a trap-like tool around the tracker and remove it. Illumination remained effective and the girl recovered quickly.
Denture This photo shows the denture removed from the man's esophagus (red arrow), as well as the remainder of the denture that was not swallowed (black arrow). (BMJ 2015)A 55-year-old man in India accidentally swallowed part of his denture after having a seizure while sleeping. But the man didn't realize what he had swallowed until 8 days later, after experiencing chest pain and difficulty swallowing.X-rays showed that part of the denture was lodged in his esophagus. Removing the denture proved difficult, but doctors were eventually able to remove it without surgery.
Dental appliance X-rays show a dental appliance being swallowed by a 4-year-old boy. (International Journal of Oral Health/CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)A 4-year-old boy in India was undergoing a root canal when he suddenly moved his head and swallowed a sharp dental instrument called a pro-taper file, which is used for root canals and looks like a small screwdriver. Initially, doctors weren't sure if the boy had inhaled or swallowed the file, but X-rays showed the instrument was in his stomach. The boy was in no pain, so doctors waited to see if the instrument would pass through the digestive tract on its own. X-rays taken later showed the instrument moving, and 41 hours later the instrument passed, according to a 2015 case report.
Bobby's Needle This X-ray of the boy's abdomen shows two sharp, opaque fragments of Bobby's Needle inside the boy. (BMJ 2015)Bobby pins may seem benign enough, especially if you're a toddler who sees anything the size of your mouth as something to put in your mouth. But for a 4-year-old boy in Saudi Arabia, swallowing a bobby pin meant a trip to the hospital, according to a case report published Nov. 5, 2015, in the journal BMJ Case Reports. Researchers said the boy apparently swallowed the bobby pin a few months before the visit, long enough for it to rust and become sharpened. The sharpened bobby pin reportedly pierced the first section of his small intestine and punctured his kidney. Doctors surgically removed the spring-loaded needle and the boy recovered successfully, they said.
"Kids start exploring the world with their mouths as soon as they're able to pick things up," said Dr. Ya *** in Abdulaziz Yousef of the California National Guard Health Affairs Department of Surgery, who co-authored the case report on Jeddah, who treated the boy. However, she said in 2015 that these swallowed objects usually "pass through the gastrointestinal tract and end up in the diaper."
"Light bulb moment" This x-ray shows the object stuck in the girl's right bronchus. (Image credit: BMJ 2015) "KDSPs": a 15-month-old girl, 20 years old, was brought to the emergency department of Hong Kong's Queen Mary Hospital.12 Breathing difficulties gave the doctors a lightbulb moment, literally. After X-rays of her chest, doctors thought she had swallowed her grandmother's hairpin. But when doctors took a closer look through a speculum inserted in her nose, they realized the girl had inhaled a light-emitting diode, or led bulb, intact and lodged in her windpipe.On August 26, 2015, doctors used tweezers to tear the light-emitting diode into pieces to minimize the damage to the girl's airway, the doctors reported in the online edition of the British Medical Journal Case Reports. damage. 12Current page: page 1
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